The Sons is a collection of stories byFranz Kafka.

In 1913 Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff requesting that three of his stories be placed in a single volume:

"The Stoker,The Metamorphosis, andThe Judgment belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even more important, a secret one, for which reason I would be reluctant to forgo the chance of having them published together in a book, which might be called The Sons."^[1]

The volume, published bySchocken Books, also includes Kafka'sLetter to His Father, which could be seen as another "son story", in this case located somewhere between fiction and autobiography.